Novellas
We the Animals – Justin TorresA Clockwork Orange – Anthony BurgessA River Runs Through It – Norman MacleanI Am Legend – Richard MathesonOf Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Ethan Frome – Edith WhartonThe Time Machine– H.G. WellsTrains Dreams – Denis JohnsonBreakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman CapoteThe Stranger – Albert Camus
On-deck
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
American literature
Moby Dick – Herman MelvilleBlood Meridian – Cormac McCarthyCanada – Richard FordSlaughterhouse Five – Kurt VonnegutLolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Freedom – Jonathan FranzenLast of the Mohicans – James Fenimore CooperOn the Road – Jack KerouacCane – Jean ToomerUncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
On-deck
Underworld – Don DeLillo
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
Collections of short fiction
Dance of the Happy Shades – Alice MunroPastoralia – George SaundersDrown – Junot DiazJesus’s Son – Denis JohnsonIn This City – Austin ClarkeWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love– Raymond CarverEverything that Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
Forty Stories – Donald BarthelmeNo one belongs here more than you – Miranda JulyThe Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
On-deck
From the Fifteenth District – Mavis Gallant
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom – Amy Hemple
The Night in Question – Tobias Wolff
Last Night – James Salter
Women with Men – Richard Ford
Pulitzer/Booker prize winners
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer EganBeloved – Toni MorrisonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael ChabonLife and Times of Michael K – J.M. CoetzeeAmsterdam – Ian McEwan
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William StyronTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper LeeCat’s Eye – Margaret AtwoodThe Bone People – Keri HulmeThe Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer
Indigenous literature
Motorcycles and Sweet Grass – Drew Hayden TaylorTen Little Indians – Sherman AlexieRavensong – Lee MaracleThe Incovenient Indian – Thomas King
red rooms – Cherie DimalineGodless but Loyal to Heaven – Richard van CampCeremony – Leslie Marmon SilkoThe Round House – Louise ErdrichIndian Horse – Richard WagameseCarpentaria – Alexis Wright
On-deck
Angel Wing Splash Pattern – Richard Van Camp
Write It On Your Heart – Harry Robinson
Baby No-Eyes – Patricia Grace
Science Fiction
Dune – Frank HerbertDay of the Triffids – John WindhamThe Martian Chronicles – Ray BradburyThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. HeinleinThe Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le GuinConsider Phlebas – Iain M. BanksRed Mars – Kim Stanley RobinsonNeuromancer – William GibsonFoundation – Isaac Asimov
On-deck
The Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Saltfish Girl – Larissa Lai
Solaris – Stanislav Lem
Crime/Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan DoyleGet Shorty – Elmore LeonardBeach Strip – John Lawrence ReynoldsAnd Then There Were None – Agatha ChristieFatal Grace – Louise Penny
Free Reign – Rosemary AubertSidetracked – Henning MankellThe Hunter – Richard StarkTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le CarreGun, with Occassional Music – Jonathan Lethem
On-deck
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
L.A. Confidential – James Ellroy
Poetry collections
placeholder – Charmaine CadeauBlack – George Elliotte ClarkeSheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person – Eirin MoureParadoxides – Don McKayNew and Selected Poems– Mary Oliver
Harmonium – Wallace StevensThe Martyrology Book V – bpNicholthirsty – Dionne BrandTowards the Last Spike – E.J. PrattBrilliant Falls – John Terpstra
On-deck
Residence on Earth – Pablo Neruda
Spring and All – William Carlos Williams
Omeros – Derek Walcott
Things of This World – Richard Wilbur
Yesno – Dennis Lee
Cartography and Walking – Adam Dickinson
Environmentally Friendly Books
Discordant Harmonies – Daniel BotkinTrauma Farm – Brian BrettThe Practice of the Wild – Gary SnyderThe Golden Spruce – John ValliantPilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
Grass, Sky, Song – Trevor HerriotFast Food Nation – Eric SchlosserSilent Spring – Rachel CarsonThe Great Lakes – Wayne GradyEating Dirt – Charlotte Gill
On-deck
Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
Ecological Imperialism – Alfred Crosby
Out of Eden – Alan Burdick
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
The Death of Nature – Carolyn Merchant
Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
Birdscapes – Jeremy Mynott
Arctic Dreams – Barry Lopez
Young Adult Literature
Perks of Being Wallflower – Stephen ChboskyPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Rick RiordanThe True Meaning of Smekday – Adam RexEnder’s Game – Orson Scott CardTuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
Artemis Fowl – Eoin ColferThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman AlexieThe Outsiders – S.E. HintonThe Giver – Lois LowryThe Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
On-deck
Wednesday Wars – Gary Schmidt
Jim the Boy – Tony Earley